Residents line up to speak during a presentation about a new Community Energy Aggregation program at a Parsippany Council meeting August 6 at Parsipany Hills High School.

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Several Parsippany residents expressed strong opposition to a new Community Energy Aggregation Program at a recent township council meeting.

Officials from other municipalities operating similar programs and the state director of the Sierra Club, however, say community energy-aggregation works, cuts electrical bills and can potentially result in the increased use of renewable energy.

"It sounds worse than it is," said Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club, a national nonprofit environmental organization. "It's actually pretty good." ...